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The US Hand in Libya’s Tragedy

By Robert Parry

The mainstream U.S. news media is lambasting the Europeans for failing to stop the humanitarian crisis unfolding in the Mediterranean Sea as desperate Libyans flee their war-torn country in overloaded boats that are sinking as hundreds drown. But the MSM forgets how this Libyan crisis began, including its own key role along with that of “liberal interventionists” such as Hillary Clinton and Samantha Power.

In 2011, it was all the rage in Official Washington to boast about the noble “responsibility to protect” the people of eastern Libya who supposedly were threatened with extermination by the “mad man” Muammar Gaddafi. We also were told endlessly that, back in 1988, Gaddafi’s agents had blown Pan Am 103 out of the skies over Lockerbie, Scotland.

The R2Pers, led by then-National Security Council aide Power with the backing of Secretary of State Clinton, convinced President Barack Obama that a “humanitarian intervention” was needed to prevent Gaddafi from slaughtering people whom he claimed were Islamic terrorists.

As this U.S.-orchestrated bombing campaign was about to begin in late March 2011, Power told a New York City audience that the failure to act would have been “extremely chilling, deadly and indeed a stain on our collective conscience.” Power was credited with steeling Obama’s spine to press ahead with the military operation.

Under a United Nations resolution, the intervention was supposed to be limited to establishing no-fly zones to prevent the slaughter of civilians. But the operation quickly morphed into a “regime change” war with the NATO-led bombing devastating Gaddafi’s soldiers who were blown to bits when caught on desert roadways.

Yet, the biggest concern in Official Washington was a quote from an Obama’s aide that the President was “leading from behind” – with European warplanes out front in the air war – when America’s war hawks said the United States should be leading from the front.

At the time, there were a few of us who raised red flags about the Libyan war “group think.” Though no one felt much sympathy for Gaddafi, he wasn’t wrong when he warned that Islamic terrorists were transforming the Benghazi region into a stronghold. Yes, his rhetoric about exterminating rats was over the top, but there was a real danger from these extremists.

And, the Pan Am 103 case, which was repeatedly cited as the indisputable proof of Gaddafi’s depravity, likely was falsely pinned on Libya.Anyone who dispassionately examined the 2001 conviction of Libyan agent Ali al-Megrahi by a special Scottish court would realize that the case was based on highly dubious evidence and bought-and-paid-fortestimony.

Megrahi was put away more as a political compromise (with a Libyan co-defendant acquitted) than because his guilt was proven beyond a reasonable doubt. Indeed, by 2009, the conviction was falling apart. Even a Scottish appeals court expressed concern about a grave miscarriage of justice. But Megrahi’s appeal was short-circuited by his release to Libya on compassionate grounds because he was suffering from terminal prostate cancer.

Yet the U.S. mainstream media routinely called him “the Lockerbie bomber” and noted that the Libyan government had taken “responsibility” for the bombing, which was true but only because it was the only way to get punitive sanctions lifted. The government, like Megrahi, continued to proclaim innocence.

A Smirking MSM

During those heady days of bombing Libya in 2011, it also was common for the MSM to smirk at the notion that Megrahi was truly suffering from advanced prostate cancer since he hadn’t died as quickly as some doctors thought he might. Then, in September 2011, after Gaddafi’s regime fell, Megrahi’s family invited the BBC and other news organizations to see Megrahi struggling to breathe in his sick bed.

His son, Khaled al-Megrahi, said, “I know my father is innocent and one day his innocence will come out.”Asked about the people who died in the Pan Am bombing, the son said: “We feel sorry about all the people who died. We want to know who did this bad thing. We want to know the truth as well.”

But it was only after Megrahi died on May 20, 2012, that some elements of the MSM acknowledged grudgingly that they were aware of the many doubts about his conviction all along.The New York Times’ obituary carried a detailed account of the evidentiary gaps that were ignored both during the trial in 2001 and during the bombing of Libya in 2011.

The Times noted that “even some world leaders” saw Megrahi

“as a victim of injustice whose trial, 12 years after the bombing, had been riddled with political overtones, memory gaps and flawed evidence. … Investigators, while they had no direct proof, believed that the suitcase with the bomb had been fitted with routing tags for baggage handlers, put on a plane at Malta and flown to Frankfurt, where it was loaded onto a Boeing 727 feeder flight that connected to Flight 103 at London, then transferred to the doomed jetliner.”

Besides the lack of proof supporting that hypothesis was the sheer implausibility that a terrorist would assume that an unattended suitcase could make such an unlikely trip without being detected, especially when it would have been much easier to sneak the suitcase with the bomb onto Pan Am 103 through the lax security at Heathrow Airport outside London.

The Times’ obit also noted that during the 85-day trial,

“None of the witnesses connected the suspects directly to the bomb. But one, Tony Gauci, the Maltese shopkeeper who sold the clothing that forensic experts had linked to the bomb, identified Mr. Megrahi as the buyer, although Mr. Gauci seemed doubtful and had picked others in photo displays. …

“The bomb’s timer was traced to a Zurich manufacturer, Mebo, whose owner, Edwin Bollier, testified that such devices had been sold to Libya. A fragment from the crash site was identified by a Mebo employee, Ulrich Lumpert. Neither defendant testified. But a turncoat Libyan agent testified that plastic explosives had been stored in [Megrahi’s co-defendant’s] desk in Malta, that Mr. Megrahi had brought a brown suitcase, and that both men were at the Malta airport on the day the bomb was sent on its way.”

In finding Megrahi guilty, the Scottish court admitted that the case was “circumstantial, the evidence incomplete and some witnesses unreliable,” but concluded that “there is nothing in the evidence which leaves us with any reasonable doubt as to the guilt” of Megrahi.

However, the evidence later came under increasing doubt.The Times wrote: “It emerged that Mr. Gauci had repeatedly failed to identify Mr. Megrahibefore the trial and had selected him only after seeing his photograph in a magazine and being shown the same photo in court. The date of the clothing sale was also in doubt.” Scottish authorities learned, too, that the U.S. Justice Department paid Gauci $2 million for his testimony.

As for the bomb’s timer, the Times noted that the court called Bollier “untruthful and unreliable” and “In 2007, Mr. Lumpert admitted that he had lied at the trial, stolen a timer and given it to a Lockerbie investigator. Moreover, the fragment he identified was never tested for residue of explosives, although it was the only evidence of possible Libyan involvement.

“The court’s inference that the bomb had been transferred from the Frankfurt feeder flight was also cast into doubt when a Heathrow security guard revealed that Pan Am’s baggage area had been broken into 17 hours before the bombing, a circumstance never explored.Hans Köchler, a United Nations observer, called the trial ‘a spectacular miscarriage of justice,’words echoed by [South African President Nelson] Mandela.”

In other words, Megrahi’s conviction looked to have been a case of gross prosecutorial misconduct,relying on testimony from perjurers and failing to pursue promising leads (like the possibility that the bomb was introduced at Heathrow, not transferred from plane to plane to plane). And those problems were known prior toMegrahi’s return to Libya in 2009 and prior to the U.S.-supported air war against Gaddafi in 2011.

Yet, Andrea Mitchell at MSNBC and pretty much everyone elsein the MSM repeated endlessly that Megrahi was “the Lockerbie bomber” and that Libya was responsible for the atrocity, thus further justifying the “humanitarian intervention” that slaughtered Gaddafi’s soldiers and enabled rebel militias to capture Tripoli in summer 2011.

Al-Qaeda Hotbed

Similarly, there was scant U.S. media attention given to evidence that eastern Libya, the heart of the anti-Gaddafi rebellion, indeed was a hotbed for Islamic militancy, with that region supplying the most per-capita militants fighting U.S. troops in Iraq, often under the banner of Al-Qaeda.

Despite that evidence, Gaddafi’s claim that he was battling Islamic terrorists in the Benghazi region was mocked or ignored. It didn’t even matter that his claim was corroborated by a report from U.S. analysts Joseph Felter and Brian Fishman for West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center.

In their report, “Al-Qaeda’s Foreign Fighters in Iraq,” Felter and Fishman analyzed Al-Qaeda documents captured in 2007 showing personnel records of militants who flocked to Iraq for the war against the Americans. The documents showed eastern Libya providing a surprising number of suicide bombers who traveled to Iraq to kill American troops.

Felter and Fishman wrote that these so-called Sinjar Records disclosed that while Saudis comprised the largest number of foreign fighters in Iraq, Libyans represented the largest per-capita contingent by far.Those Libyans came overwhelmingly from towns and cities in the east.

“The vast majority of Libyan fighters that included their hometown in the Sinjar Records resided in the country’s Northeast, particularly the coastal cities of Darnah 60.2% (53) and Benghazi 23.9% (21),” Felter and Fishman wrote, adding that Abu Layth al‐Libi, Emir of Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), “reinforced Benghazi and Darnah’s importance to Libyan jihadis in his announcement that LIFG had joined al‐Qa’ida.”

Some important Al-Qaeda leaders operating in Pakistan’s tribal regions also were believed to have come from Libya. For instance, “Atiyah,” who was guiding the anti-U.S. war strategy in Iraq, was identified as a Libyan named Atiyah Abd al-Rahman.

It was Atiyah who urged a strategy of creating a quagmire for U.S. forces in Iraq, buying time for Al-Qaeda Central to rebuild its strength in Pakistan. “Prolonging the war[in Iraq] is in our interest,”Atiyah said in a letter that upbraided Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi for his hasty and reckless actions in Iraq.

After U.S. Special Forces killed Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011, in Pakistan, Atiyah became al-Qaeda’s second in command until he himself was reportedly killed in a U.S. drone strike in August 2011. [See Consortiumnews.com “Time Finally Ran Out for Atiyah.”]

However, to most Americans who rely on the major U.S. news media, little of this was known, as the Washington Post itself acknowledged in an article on Sept. 12, 2011, after Gaddafi had been overthrown but before his murder. In an article on the rise of Islamists inside the new power structure in Libya, the Post wrote:

“Although it went largely unnoticed during the uprising that toppled Gaddafi last month, Islamists were at the heart of the fight, many as rebel commanders. Now some are clashing with secularists within the rebels’ Transitional National Council, prompting worries among some liberals that the Islamists — who still command the bulk of fighters and weapons — could use their strength to assert an even more dominant role.”

“In the emerging post-Qaddafi Libya, the most influential politician may well beAli Sallabi, who has no formal title but commands broad respect as an Islamic scholar and populist orator who was instrumental in leading the mass uprising.The most powerful military leader is nowAbdel Hakim Belhaj, the former leader of a hard-line group once believed to be aligned with Al Qaeda.”

Belhaj was previously the commander of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, which was associated with Al-Qaeda in the past, maintained training bases in Afghanistan before the 9/11 attacks, and was listed as a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department.

Belhaj and the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group denied continued allegiance to Al-Qaeda, but Belhaj was captured during George W. Bush’s post-9/11 “war on terror” and was harshly interrogated by the CIA at a “black site” prison in Thailand before being handed over to Gaddafi’s government which imprisoned and – Belhaj claims – tortured him.

The Times reported that “Belhaj has become so much an insider lately that he is seeking to unseat Mahmoud Jabril, the American-trained economist who is the nominal prime minister of the interim government, after Mr. Jibril obliquely criticized the Islamists.”

The Times article by correspondents Rod Nordland and David D. Kirkpatrick also cited other signs of growing Islamist influence inside the Libyan rebel movement:

It may be commendable that the Post and Times finally gave serious attention to this consequence of the NATO-backed “regime change” in Libya, but the fact that these premier American newspapers ignored the Islamist issue as well as doubts about Libya’s Lockerbie guilt– while the U.S. government was whipping up public support for another war in the Muslim world – raises questions about whether those news organizations primarily serve a propaganda function.

Gaddafi’s Brutal Demise

Even amid these warning signs that Libya was headed toward bloody anarchy, the excited MSM coverage of Libya remained mostly about the manhunt for “the madman” – Muammar Gaddafi. When rebels finally captured Gaddafi on Oct. 20, 2011, in the town of Sirte – and sodomized him with a knife before killing him – Secretary of State Clinton could barely contain her glee, joking inone interview: “We came, we saw, he died.”

The months of aerial slaughter of Gaddafi’s soldiers and Gaddafi’s own gruesome death seemed less amusing on Sept. 11, 2012, when Islamic terrorists overran the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, killing U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other U.S. diplomatic personnel. In the two-plus years since, Libya has become a killing ground for rival militias, including some now affiliated with the Islamic State.

“has gained a foothold in key towns and cities in the mostly lawless North African state [Libya], prompting Egypt – seeing itself as the bulwark against Islamists in region – to launch air strikes against the group. …

“IS has launched its most high-profile attacks in Libya, bombing an upmarket hotel in the capital, Tripoli, in January, and releasing a video earlier this month showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians it had kidnapped. On 20 February, it killed at least 40 people in a suicide bombing in the eastern town of al-Qubbah.”

Now, the chaos that the U.S.-sponsored “regime change”unleashed has grown so horrific that it is causing desperate Libyans to climb into unseaworthy boats to escape the sharp edges of the Islamic State’s knives and other depredations resulting from the nationwide anarchy.

Thus, Libya should be a powerful lesson to Hillary Clinton, Samantha Power and the other R2Pers that often their schemes of armed “humanitarianism” can go badly awry and do much more harm than good.It should also be another reminder to the MSM to question the arguments presented by the U.S. government, rather than simply repeating those dubious claims and false narratives.

But neither seems to be happening. The “liberal interventionists” – like their neoconservative allies – remain unchastened, still pumping for more “regime change” wars, such as in Syria. Yet, many of these moral purists are silent about the slaughter of ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine, Palestinians in Gaza, or now Houthis and other Yemenis dying under Saudi bombs in Yemen.

It appears the well-placed R2Pers in the Obama administration are selective in where that “responsibility to protect” applies.

Samantha Power, now serving as U.S. ambassador to the UN, remains the same self-righteous scold denouncing human rights abuses in places where there are American-designated “bad guys” while looking the other way in places where the killing is being done by U.S. “allies.”As for Hillary Clinton, she is already being touted as the presumptive Democratic nominee for President.

Meanwhile, the MSM has conveniently forgotten its own propaganda role in revving up the war on Libya in 2011.So, instead of self-reflection and self-criticism, the mainstream U.S. media is filled with condemnations of the Europeans for their failure to respond properly to the crisis of some 900 Libyans apparently drowning in a desperate attempt to flee their disintegrating country.

In reopening the investigation into the mysterious plane crash that killed UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold in 1961, the United Nations is appealing to member states to release long-secret files related to this cold case from a tense moment in the Cold War in Africa, which Lisa Pease examined in 2013.

More than a half century ago, just after midnight on Sept. 18, 1961, the plane carrying UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld and 15 others went down in a plane crash over Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). All 16 died, but the facts of the crash were provocatively mysterious.

There have been three investigations into the crash: an initial civil aviation Board of Inquiry, a Rhodesian Commission of Inquiry, and a UN Commission in 1962. Not one of them could definitively answer why the plane crashed or whether a deliberate act had been responsible.

Investigative reports: Author of ‘Extreme Prejudice’ Susan Lindauer on the CIA & UK TV lies about Libya and Lockerbie – Interview with Susan Lindauer, former CIA officer and author of ‘Extreme Prejudice’.
The Lockerbie crash was not instigated by Libyans but by rogue CIA officers, to kill off DIA & CIA officers on plane returning to Washington who that knew that rogue officers had ‘gone rogue’ and were taking large amounts of money from drugs for their own purposes.

Black Budget money;

Islamic terrorists and hostages;

CIA dealing drugs to pay for Black Ops;

shadow government;

Oliver North;

Iran Contra;

Ahmed Jibril, Abu Nidal and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (General Command);

how Libya used to be;

film ‘Kill the Messenger';

book ‘Dark Alliance’ by Gary Webb.

As a U.S. Intelligence Asset, Susan Lindauer covered anti-terrorism at the Iraqi Embassy in New York from 1996 up…

THE LOCKERBIE BOMBING – NO ORDINARY FLIGHT

BY LADY KHAMIS

The world knows that on 21 December 1988, on its way from London to New York, Pan Am airflight 103, ‘The Maid of the Seas’, exploded over the town of Lockerbie in Scotland – killing 270 people. Not one of the 259 people on board survived. 189 were Americans. 11 of the dead had been people on the ground.
The attack was a false flag operation that was used to help justify America’s invasion – by proxy – of Libya in 2011. A war that the West had long intended and had hoped to bring about long before then.
What the world does not know is who really perpetrated the “biggest terror attack” on British soil.
The only man ever convicted was the Libyan, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, on 31 January 2001. But there was not one piece of material evidence linking him – or Libya – to the crime…
Megrahi died in Libya from prostate cancer on 20 May 2012. He had been freed from a Scottish prison under compassionate grounds – but only under the condition that he would drop his appeal against his conviction. He had always maintained his innocence.
Why was the UK government so desperate to stop his appeal that they made it the condition of his freedom?
The first thing that struck me about this flight was that it had no ordinary passenger list. In fact, it was surely no surprise that this plane was targeted. It was specifically brought down for a reason that did not fit the official line. The latter being that Libya had conducted the attack as revenge against America for bombing Libya in 1986.
But the passenger list reads like a ‘who’s who’ of reasons for Western intelligence agencies to want to see this plane taken out.
On board were an estimated eleven agents of the CIA, including a cell that was seen as rogue by the CIA – as its members were about to reveal a drug smuggling plot by the CIA itself – and containing a man who knew too much about a CIA death squad…
Also on board was a VIP who was going to court to reveal the West’s mining activity in Africa…

The Libya Connection

Megrahi was convicted partly on ‘evidence’ supplied by Tony Gauci, a clothes shop owner in Malta. Fragments of clothing, allegedly recovered from the Lockerbie crash site and connected to the bomb, were traced back to Gauci’s clothes shop in Malta.
Gauci changed his evidence after originally failing to identify Megrahi as the customer that had purchased the clothing. In fact, Gauci identified several other people first – including, most interestingly, a CIA agent – as his customer…
Gauci was later paid more than $3 million by the CIA to falsely identify Megrahi as his customer and to keep his mouth shut.
Gauci had secretly pestered the US and Scottish authorities for two years for the Americans offer of “unlimited monies” for his ‘evidence’.
The big question is that if Megrahi were guilty, why would the CIA need to pay so much money to a witness to get him to change his story?
Gauci’s original statement to the authorities was altered and Megrahi’s lawyers were not allowed to see it – along with other critical evidence that would have cleared Megrahi of all charges against him.
In fact, Gauci’s first statement to investigators had said that the suspect was “6 feet or more in height” and aged “about 50”. But Megrahi was 5 feet 8 inches tall and just 36 years old.
In two separate statements, Gauci also identified his customer as having been Abu Talb – a convicted Palestinian ‘terrorist’ – who was proven to have been in Malta on the day of the Lockerbie attack. Two of Abu Talb’s ‘terrorist’ colleagues were also with him on that day – and left Malta the day after.
Abu Talb, an Egyptian, has been claimed to be a US agent…
The notes that were used to convict Megrahi had also been suspiciously and fundamentally altered. This includes page numbers being changed and even words being over-written. How on earth was this ever accepted in a court of law?
The US and the UK did not allow Megrahi to have a trial in a neutral country – because their ‘evidence’ against him would have not stood up in such a court.
In 2002, a UN trial observer said that the US and UK authorities had exerted undue influence over Megrahi’s trial. It was clear that they had something to seek from it or something to hide.
The only other ‘witness’ in the Lockerbie case was Abdulmajid Gialka. But it turned out that he had been conspiring with the CIA in Malta – four months BEFORE the Lockerbie bombing…
He also stood to pick up nearly $4 million from the CIA for his ‘testimony’.
The only other ‘evidence’ against Libya was a fragment of the bomb’s printed circuit board (PCB), which had been part of the bomb’s timer. The fragment ‘matched’ perfectly the PCB’s of twenty timers designed and built for Libyan intelligence by the Swiss company, MeBo.
After Megrahi’s conviction on the basis of this ‘evidence’, it was finally and sensationally revealed that the bomb fragment was no match at all to Libya’s timers!
Also, MeBo had only ever supplied the type of timer they gave to Libya to one other entity – the Stasi of East Germany.
Experts have said that the exact spot where the ‘evidence’ was found would not correlate with their calculations as to where it should have landed – had it been on the plane…
The ‘evidence’ was nothing more than a plant – in order to frame Libya. Both the FBI, and the Scottish and Swiss police forces had suspected it was a plant. The British government also knew it was fake – yet they all withheld the evidence from the court that was in the process of trying Megrahi.
A former Scottish police chief has stated that the CIA had planted the PCB. A former CIA agent has admitted that his masters “wrote the script” to falsely implicate Libya in the bombing.
Later, an FBI scientist, Frederick Whitehurst, was suspended for fabricating evidence in a number of bombing cases. Also suspended with him were two FBI officers and another FBI scientist, Thomas Thurman.
Thurman had been a key figure in ‘solving’ the Lockerbie case.
The case against Megrahi and his co-accused was based on Thurman’s forensic ‘evidence’; the Swiss MeBo PCB embedded with the piece of Malta shop shirt. It had been found in dense forest – a full 18 months after the plane came down!
Even more interesting is that the owner of MeBo revealed in 1989 – the year after the bombing and eight months before the PCB was allegedly found in 1990 – that a number of PCB’s had been stolen from MeBo. He has stated that he believes the ‘evidence’ may instead have really been one of his company’s stolen PCB’s…

The Dodgy Scientists

The UK counterpart of the discredited Thomas Thurman, working with him on the Lockerbie investigation, was Alan Feraday – only a self-confessed forensic expert in electronics. Feraday has been a prosecution witness in a number of high-profile trials – including terrorist bombings. No less than three of his cases have been subsequently overturned on appeal.
Feraday’s cases have involved defendants being convicted on his ‘evidence’ – but later acquitted due to that ‘evidence’ having been found to be faulty.
The forensic group Feraday represented had already had a string of wrongful convictions in the 1970’s – perpetrated by its scientists providing dodgy evidence. Innocent men had spent years in prison – one had even died there. One of these scientists also worked with Feraday on the Lockerbie case.
Feraday was often referred to in court as ‘Dr’ or ‘Professor’ – despite not having the academic accreditation to warrant this!
Feraday presented the PCB as the ‘evidence’ that would convict Megrahi.
In 1993, England’s most senior judge stated that Feraday should not be allowed to present himself as an expert in the field of electronics again – after the judge had to overturn a terrorist bombing conviction that had been based on Feraday’s faulty ‘evidence’.
Feraday’s was banned from ever testifying in court again and so he retired in 1995. But the Lockerbie trial masters needed to have Megrahi falsely convicted and they needed Feraday to do it. This is why the original trial took place in Holland. By not holding it in Scotland, the ban on Feraday was circumvented…
And so it was that in June 2000, Feraday was wheeled out as the ‘expert’ prosecution witness in the trial of Megrahi, convicted in January 2001 on his ‘evidence’ – the now utterly disgraced PCB…
It is also alleged that Feraday knew the PCB was not a match to Libya’s timers – but kept it secret.
It is also worth pointing out at this point that in the UK an abnormally high number of government scientists have been found dead over the years – officially ruled as ‘accident’ or ‘suicide’ (remember Dr. David Kelly; Iraq war, as an infamous example). Whether serving their masters or turning against the agenda, these scientists all had one thing in common. They all knew too much…
There was much crowing by the West in 2011 after its removal of Libya’s leader, Muammar Gaddafi, that files would be found to prove Libya was the culprit for the bombing – especially with the help of its newly installed pro-West ‘government’ in Libya.
It is no surprise, whatsoever, that in the three years since, nothing at all has turned up to implicate Libya in the Lockerbie bombing.
Even his enemies now admit that nothing exists – and nor did it ever exist.
All UK governments since the Lockerbie event have refused to allow any public inquiry into the disaster.

The CIA Plot to Kill Megrahi

In 1995, former Washington lobbyist, William Chasey, wrote a book stating that Libya was not responsible for the Lockerbie bombing.
In 1998, the CIA tried to recruit him for a CIA plan to kill Megrahi and his co-accused. The latter was another Libyan, Lamin Khalifa Fhimah. He was later acquitted of any involvement in the bombing – despite being tried on exactly the same ‘evidence’ as Megrahi! Another anomaly…
Chasey says the CIA tried to get him to plant homing devices on Megrahi and Fhimah as part of the plot. These would be used to pinpoint the targets so the CIA could assassinate them.
The CIA tried to blackmail Chasey into colluding with them by saying they would get a charge against him of a false tax return dropped. Chasey was disgusted and refused to get involved.
Killing the two Libyans would have prevented any trial taking place and stopped any possible chance of the truth coming out.

The Namibia Connection

On board the plane was Bernt Carlsson – the Assistant Secretary General of the Nations – who was also the UN Commissioner for Namibia.
Carlsson, a Swiss national, was the lead investigator into allegations of illegal uranium exportation.
He is believed to have been a real target of the bombing and was its most high-profile victim.
Namibia was about to be granted its independence – and Carlsson was about to expose the Western corporations that were exploiting Namibia’s minerals and the workers that had the unfortunate task of mining for them.
One of the companies likely to have faced prosecution was De Beers – which took so many of Namibia’s precious gemstones that it has been compared to the rape of India during the latter’s time under the rule of the ghastly colonial British Empire.
Another company was the Rossing Uranium Mine – one of the biggest open pit uranium mines in the world. As well as illegal mining, living and working conditions at the Rossing mine were also of concern – as was the use of paramilitary security forces to guard it…
Other companies facing charges were Newmont, Rio Tinto – and Shell.
British-based Rio Tinto Zinc Corp was one of the companies allegedly involved in a secret contract of operations that they arranged – in order to illegally import Rossing’s Namibia uranium into Britain.
The policy was so covert that innocent European transport workers had unknowingly handled countless barrels of dangerous radioactive substances…
URENCO – a Dutch, West Germany and British-owned uranium-enrichment company was exporting uranium from the Rossing Uranium Mine – but shady dealings made it hard to trace where the uranium they bought was actually coming from. Bizarrely, when charged, URENCO themselves claimed that they had not known where its uranium had come from!
In 1985, the UN Council for Namibia began court proceedings – although it was not until July 1987 that the UN was finally able to actually bring URENCO to court.
But when Bernt Carlsson was murdered in the 1988 Lockerbie attack – and therefore prevented from testifying – the UN case against URENCO was then promptly and mysteriously dropped…
Just three months after the Lockerbie bombing, subsequent British Prime Minister David Cameron actually visited the Rossing Uranium Mine in Namibia. Also with him was the British PM at that time, Margaret Thatcher…
In 2013, Cameron announced that the UK would be selling off its interests in URENCO – this would aid the cover up of the illegal activities that Carlsson had found.
In 1987, Carlsson had spoken on a British TV current affairs show, ‘World In Action’, in an episode titled ‘The Case of the Disappearing Diamonds’. He had talked about prosecuting all the aforementioned companies, and how legal action had already began against URENCO.
He had now become an arch enemy of the West – one that had to be silenced. And as we know, the West will stop at nothing in their rape of African countries’ resources and riches to steal them for themselves.
Originally, the police concluded that the bomb had been placed in Carlsson’s suitcase, a grey Presikhaaf – but later changed their story. But what is interesting is that Carlsson’s case was next to Megrahi’s alleged bomb case, a brown Samsonite. Carlsson’s case was severely damaged by the bomb – yet we are supposed to believe that pieces of ‘evidence’ from Megrahi’s case were found intact, as if by magic!
The police and the CIA had no interest into looking into the angle that Carlsson may have been the real target of Lockerbie.
The US and the UK wanted Megrahi found guilty of the attack and Carlsson was an inconvenient line of inquiry.

The South Africa Connection

In 1986, the Prime Minister of Sweden, Olof Palme, was murdered. In 1996, it was reported that Col. Eugene De Kock of South Africa’s Police force gave evidence to the Supreme Court in Pretoria that Palme’s assassin was a South African agent. Palme was murdered because he opposed the SA apartheid regime and gave money to the opposition African National Congress (ANC).
Just days later, the killer was identified as Anthony White – an-ex Rhodesian soldier with links to South Africa’s security services.
The reason that this story is so significant is that PM Olof Palme
had a special adviser to him – and that adviser was none other than Bernt Carlsson…
In 1994, Nelson Mandela, now the President of South Africa, stated his position that South Africa had been the perpetrator of the
Lockerbie bombing. He repeatedly urged the then British Prime Minister, John Major, to “clear up Lockerbie”. Major refused.
The South African State Security forces have a close relationship with the CIA…

The Iran Connection

There is a large amount of evidence that Iran ordered the bombing – in revenge for a deliberate, unnecessary and devastating terrorist attack by the US military on an Iranian airliner on 3 July 1988 – in which 290 innocent civilians were murdered, including many children.
Some of the evidence is circumstantial, but it all fits together as easily as an adult doing a child’s jigsaw.
Two months before Lockerbie, a man named Hafez Dalkamoni, a member of the Syrian-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (PFLP-GC), was caught by German police in Dusseldorf, carrying a bomb designed to explode at altitude. It was a Toshiba radio-cassette bomb – like the one that exploded over Lockerbie. It was one of five identical bombs that had been made.
The particular cell of the group Dalkamoni belonged to was based in Frankfurt – the city from which Pan Am 103’s feeder flight would originate… Indeed, the cell had already picked up Pan Am timetables from Frankfurt Airport. The bomb-maker had also been seen carrying a brown Samsonite suitcase…
The senior maker of all five bombs was Marwan Khreesat – but unknown to the cell, he was a mole for German and Jordanian intelligence agencies. Although, it is said the group’s leader, Ahmed Jibril, had his suspicions about him…
Jordanian intelligence – who had been spying on the cell – had told Khreesat to carry on with his job of creating the five bombs but to make them so that they would not explode. But later, in 1989, a German police technician was killed – trying to disarm one of the four recovered bombs that Khreesat had made…
So Khreesat had made five identical bombs – only four of which were ever recovered. What about the fifth? It was stolen – just one day before Dalkamoni’s arrest…
Was this the bomb used over Lockerbie? And did the CIA obtain it?
Khreesat said Dalkamoni had taken it and given it to Khaisar Haddad (Abu Elias) – another PFLP-GC member and a chief Lockerbie suspect. Abu Elias reportedly has had links to the CIA…
The bomb used over Lockerbie was the same kind as the four recovered from Khreesat – but a more sophisticated timer had since been built into it…
White plastic residue retrieved at the crash site matched the material found in the timers that had been bought from two colleagues of the PFLP-GC group’s leader, Ahmed Jibril, just before Dalkamoni’s arrest in Germany.
In 1989, Scottish police wanted to arrest Khreesat over the Lockerbie attack – but the FBI stopped them…
A former President of Iran admitted – on camera in 1993 – that only three weeks after the Lockerbie bombing, Iran had paid Jibril $11million for the attack.
Declassified US intelligence documents have stated as a fact that Iran was behind the Lockerbie bombing – with an Iranian Interior Minister, Ali-Akbar Mohtashemi, listed as being the one who devised, plotted and paid the PFLP-GC $10 million to carry it out…Private communications showed America and Britain knew it was the PFLP-GC that did it.
But were these documents fabricated – concocted at a time before Libya superceded Iran as enemy number one? The payment for the attack is also alleged to be more “disinformation” – as the banking
audit trail that exists has allegedly not been presented to confirm it.
After the Iranian plane had been shot down by the US, the Iranian ambassador in Beirut had invited Jibril and others to a meeting attended by some of the Iran Revolutionary Guard – where plans were made to bring down a US plane with a bomb. Another meeting had also been held at the Carlton Hotel in Beirut – just days before Lockerbie happened.
In 1989, the Sunday Times newspaper in Britain reported on its front page that the PFLP-GC had been identified as the bombers. The authorities originally urged Scottish investigators to concentrate on this link.
But later, both the British and American governments and their intelligence agencies were all hell-bent on Libya being framed instead.
Later, stories came from the CIA claiming that Iran had sub-contracted the bombing to Libya to do – after the PFLP-GC cell had been busted in Germany. Or that Libya had all along been doing it behind the scenes – with the PFLP-GC cell’s operations as nothing more than a red-herring, designed to take the authorities attention away from Libya! There is no evidence to support these fanciful theories.
US policy had changed with their assault on Iraq in the Gulf War of 1990 – and now the US desired support from Iran and Syria. America’s chosen number one enemies were now Iraq and Libya.
Another PFLP-GC member, Abu Nidal – who has been linked to the CIA and Mossad – was shot dead in Baghdad in 2002. Shortly before his death, he is reported to have told a colleague that he had done the Lockerbie bombing and that he had been asked by his friend, Muammar Gaddafi, to do the attack. No evidence exists to support this claim.
A former head of Iranian intelligence in Europe, Abolghasem Mesbahi, defected and told German investigators that Iran had asked Libya and Abu Nidal to carry out the attack.
In fact, in November 1988, Abu Nidal had revealed to a journalist that he was under “great pressure” from Syria to bomb an American airliner…
In 1996, the British government received a secret document in which Mesbahi stated Iran had ordered the bombing. Foreign Secretary David Miliband, a Jew, told judges that releasing the document would harm the national interest. (Germany too – but that was not mentioned). He signed a Public Interest Immunity certificate preventing its disclosure. The document destroys the ‘evidence’ of the timer and Thurman’s fragment – and would have caused Megrahi’s acquittal and Libya’s exoneration…
Next to the Pan Am terminal at Heathrow, London, was the Iran Air terminal – the two airlines shared the same tarmac space… Is this significant?
A break-in at a baggage storage area at Heathrow had occurred only the night before the bombing. This has never been explained…
Some Lockerbie experts, who have done unparalleled investigations into the complicated and finer details of the transfer of baggage evidence, conclude that the bomb was placed on the plane at Heathrow – and not from Frankfurt or Malta.
Air Malta confirmed all the Malta luggage had been collected and none transferred to the death flight. When Granada TV said the bomb suitcase had come from Malta, the airline successfully sued.
The Heathrow baggage handler, returning from his tea break, noticed a suitcase that had mysteriously appeared amongst the luggage. It had not been there before…
It was a brown Samsonite…
Exactly the same type of case that had contained the bomb and that Megrahi had allegedly brought from Malta and loaded on to the plane at Frankfurt!
Furthermore, the further away from detonation, the much harder it is to set a bomb timer successfully…
The luggage studies show shocking deficiencies in the police and forensic investigations – which led to the trail going in the completely false direction of Megrahi.

Operation Ringwind and October Surprise

One of the passengers killed in the Lockerbie bombing was CIA
agent Major Charles McKee. He had only been temporarily assigned to the agency though.
In 1980, Robert Gates, later a US Defence Secretary under Barack Obama, was working for the CIA – helping the CIA plan ‘October Surprise’.
October Surprise was an illegal plot to get Ronald Reagan elected as President of the US and prevent Jimmy Carter being re-elected.
Over in Iran, 52 Americans were being held hostage at the US embassy. Gates took part in secret contact with Iran – as part of his deliberate and diabolical scheme to get a delay to the release of his own country’s hostages… This would damage President Jimmy Carter and his hopes of staying in power. In Paris in October 1980, Gates and George Bush Sr then took part in a secret meeting with Iran’s Hashemi Rafsanjani.
These acts framed Jimmy Carter and seriously damaged him in the eyes of the public. Reagan was then voted in as President in place of Carter – exactly as planned. After 444 days, the 52 US hostages were freed – just minutes after Reagan had taken his oath of office …
George Bush Sr also got his reward. The former CIA director, later to be President himself, became Reagan’s Vice President.
Gates was also involved in selling weapons to Iran (the agreed exchange in return for having held the hostages for longer); the Iran-Contra scandal, as well as covering up CIA drug trafficking.
One of the reasons Iran later got off as a target for investigation for Lockerbie is because Iran had the information that would have incriminated Bush Sr in the Iran-Contra scandal. The investigations into the latter were going on in 1990 – just as Bush Sr was gearing up for a tough re-election battle for 1992…
Major Charles McKee was one of the CIA agents who knew too much about a plot called ‘Operation Ringwind’ – which was linked to the 1980 October Surprise. Operation Ringwind was a CIA assassination squad formed in 1981 – and it was under the control of Robert Gates – who was now the Deputy Director of the CIA…
Ringwind’s CIA death squad was tasked with ‘taking care’ of all participants in October Surprise. Anyone they thought had been involved in the October Surprise were threats because they knew too much and they had to be hunted down and killed. Ringwind was given as long as it was needed to achieve its aims.
An investigator into October Surprise was also found dead.
The CIA allowed the Lockerbie bombing to go ahead – because McKee had to be silenced.
McKee had also been planning a rescue operation for some American hostages being held in Beirut by Hezbollah.
The extremely active and industrious McKee had also been very busy doing something else – collecting evidence of CIA drug smuggling – and he was travelling on the Lockerbie flight with his evidence at the time of the bombing…
McKee was seen by the CIA as a seriously rogue agent (bearing in mind that all CIA agents are rogues)…He had to be stopped.
Four other CIA agents were accompanying him on the plane; Daniel O’Connor (a security officer at the US embassy in Cyprus), Ronald Larivier, Bill Leyrer – and interestingly, the CIA Deputy Station Chief in Beirut, Matthew Gannon. Plenty of reason for the CIA to want rid of him too…

The Syrian Drugs Connection

Within just two hours of the plane crashing down, a huge number of Americans mysteriously arrived at the scene. This alarmed residents.
The speed at which the CIA arrived also suggests they had prior knowledge of the bombing.
The CIA began looking for highly confidential documents that they expected to find on a body.
What was in these papers? Why was the CIA looking for them? And how did the CIA know they were supposed to be there?
The CIA said that they were also looking for something of great importance – but refused to say what it was… They then told Scottish officials that they would know what it was when they found it!
According to the highly controversial Israeli lawyer and former Mossad agent, Juval Aviv – who was hired by Pan Am to investigate the bombing – one or more baggage handlers at Frankfurt Airport were involved in drug smuggling. Clean luggage was being covertly swapped for baggage laden with drugs.
His report claims that a CIA cell led by the aforementioned Major Charles McKee – which was in Beirut to plan a rescue operation of the US hostages held by Hezbollah in Lebanon – knew about what was going on at Frankfurt Airport. The CIA cell was using this knowledge to extract confessions from the Beirut kidnappers.
But then McKee found out that the CIA itself was involved in the drug smuggling operations! He was furious – feeling the CIA was jeopardising his attempts to free the hostages.
Sensible people know that the so-called ‘War on Drugs’ is really a morass of covert CIA operations to control the drug trade and profit from it themselves. These profits also fund the corrupt gangster politicians that end up in power in the US.
Manzur al-Khassar, a Syrian drugs and weapons trafficker, was used by the US to try to negotiate the release of the Lebanon hostages. In exchange, he was to get an agreement from America that the US would protect the Syrian drug route that shipped heroin through Frankfurt Airport to America…
Reportedly, the CIA also used Khassar to smuggle Lebanese heroin into the US – to help finance the 9/11 attacks on America…
One of the pilots flying the heroin was Mohammed Atta – later he would fly one of the two planes into the Twin Towers on 9/11…
According to the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), Khassar once imported 20% of all the heroin that entered America.
Khassar’s handler was the notorious Iran-Contra figure, US army officer Oliver North, who had already worked with him in the arms to Nicaragua Contra’s scandal… At first, neither of them knew anything about McKee’s CIA team already operating separately on the Lebanon hostages issue – but they soon found out…
Khassar also learned of McKee’s anger and his intention to take evidence and testify about the CIA-protected Syrian drug route. Khassar was then informed by Syrian Intelligence of the McKee team’s flight plans and so he arranged to have a bomb placed on Pan Am 103, in order to dispose of McKee, his team and all the evidence.
And now we are at the point where it is alleged that the Lockerbie plots begin to overlap…
The aforementioned PFLP-GC’s Ahmed Jibril also learned of Khassar’s activities and, realising this was an easy way to take revenge on the US for the tragedy of the Iranian aircraft, he is said to have also got involved with Khassar’s plot to place the Lockerbie bomb inside one of the suitcases of heroin that was being regularly substituted at Frankfurt Airport.
The drug suitcase used at Frankfurt on the day of the bombing was completely different from the type that had been used in all previous drug shipments. It was a brown Samsonite…
The suitcase that was switched for the bomb belonged to a Lebanese-American, Khalid Jaafar – the only Arab victim aboard Pan Am 103. At first, he was believed to be an unwitting innocent – but then ABC news of America revealed he was a drug courier – although he had no idea his bag of drugs had been switched for a bomb… He also had links to Hezbollah.
Jaafar was alleged to have been seen in a DEA office in Cyprus – furthering speculation that he was a drug mule for the US…
It is alleged though, that Jaafar’s two suitcases were later accounted for – and the forensics showed no traces of drugs or explosives in either of them…
But witnesses say that Jaafar was in a state of great agitation as he waited to board the flight…
And a Scottish police officer had overheard US personnel at the Lockerbie crash site saying there had been a drug courier on the plane; Jaafar – a Lebanese informant used by the DEA…
In a further twist, a ‘friend’ of Jaafar had changed Jaafar’s flight from one on 19 December to the ill-fated one two days later. On 19 December, Jaafar had instead gone to Sweden. Someone he met there gave him a gift of some clothes.
Sweden was the place where the aforementioned ‘terrorist’, Abu Talb, had been arrested. Shortly after his arrest, a phone call had been intercepted in which Abu Talb’s wife had told his associates to get rid of some clothes – clothes that he had bought in Malta…
This supports Tony Gauci’s original statement – before he altered it to suit the CIA – that Abu Talb, not Megrahi, had been the man buying clothes in Malta…
What the CIA had been looking for at the bombsite was a suitcase of heroin, and anything else that could incriminate the CIA.
One suitcase was found and taken away, then returned empty – to then be ‘found’ by the forensic team… It belonged to McKee… And it had contained the heroin – a large cache of it…
A quantity of the heroin had already been found on Lockerbie golf course immediately after the bombing, and the suitcase full of heroin had been spotted by a farmer, a couple of miles to the east. Worried about his sheep, he had reported it – and was shocked to find the CIA were very, very angry with him…
They were supposed to have seen the heroin first – because no one was ever supposed to know of its existence…
As well as removing the heroin, the CIA had also retrieved from the suitcase around $500,000, an envelope with $547,000 worth of travellers’ cheques – and some highly sensitive and documents. All these items were purged from all official records…
This is tampering with evidence and no explanation has ever been given for it.
Unfortunately for the CIA, the plane had been running a little late – meaning it did not explode over the ocean as the timer setter had intended it. This would have meant no recovery of evidence.
No wonder the CIA were in such a panic when they arrived at the small town of Lockerbie…
As for Khassar, he was arrested – just days before Megrahi was granted his second appeal – and just days after Tony Blair went to Libya to do a deal that would ultimately save him the embarrassment of it…

The Mystery of the Missing Body

As the Americans searched the bomb site, it later transpired that they had removed a body from the scene… The corpse was never returned and the identity of this person remains in the dark. One surmises, perhaps, that it was another CIA stooge?
American agents had also been caught on camera arriving with a coffin. The TV crew was ordered to stop filming it. Clearly the removal of the body had been well prepared for in advance…

The Mystery of the Dead Dogs

In 1991, it was revealed that four of the dutiful Lockerbie rescue dogs had died from ailments due to exposure to depleted uranium at the bombsite. Depleted uranium weights had been used as ballast in the tail of the aircraft. Dr. Rodney Murray, senior medical officer of the Search and Rescue Dog Association, told officials about his concern that humans had also been exposed to harmful substances at the crash site.
Another report says 400kg of enriched uranium from the plane’s stabilisation mechanism spread along the route of the wreckage.
Disturbingly, Murray also wrote about other nuclear entities on the plane and referred to unspecified areas of the crash site – areas that had been sealed off and guarded by Americans carrying weapons.
It was not long afterwards that officials ‘let the matter drop’.

The Theory of Another Bomb

The above may fit in with some experts saying a different bomb may have been on the plane.
Joe Vialls, a private investigator, blamed Mossad for the bombing. He also found ‘israel’ and Mossad had been behind other events such as the Asian tsunami in 2004, and the death of ‘princess’ Diana Spencer (the woman who was mother of the future ‘king’ of England and was about to marry a Muslim, whose child she was carrying)…
Vialls said that the extent of the damage caused to the plane was so great that the bomb must have been placed more closer to the front of the fuselage – and not wrapped up in clothing in a suitcase in the baggage container…
He believed that the bomb was triggered by a complex radio detonation technique – of a kind known to be used by ‘israel’ – and not by a timer device. The bomb would either have been detonated by a radio signal sent from outside the plane, or have been sophisticated enough to go off when it detected a specific radio frequency.
At the time of the flight approaching Lockerbie, the plane’s cockpit flashed a light, indicating the pilots must change radio air-traffic control frequencies. The pilot had to gain permission, from Shanwick Oceanic Control, Prestwick, Scotland, in order to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. This was always the normal procedure.
But just after the radio frequency switched over to Shanwick, the bomb then detonated…
Disturbingly, when investigators simulated the bombing, the test bomb was placed in the back of the plane. Why? The official line is that it went off in the front…
Planes of this type, a Boeing 747, that have exploded from a bomb on board, have landed safely – albeit with some damage and a few fatalities – because they had been built to survive bombs in suitcases.
So why was this plane so badly damaged?

Was the Bomb switched from the ‘Wrong’ Plane?

Another theory that blames Iran is that the bombers meant to target the Pan Am flight that went direct from Frankfurt to New York – and not one which took the same journey via changing at Heathrow. The direct flight would, at that time of year, have been full of US military going home for Christmas.
This makes sense as Iran and Libya would both have wanted to specifically target these American criminals for their atrocities against them.
The suitcase containing the bomb had been labelled with the name of one of the American passengers that was on the direct flight – and was accidentally placed on the wrong plane, possibly by unwitting Frankfurt Airport staff.
The person who put the bomb in the case was not a passenger.
The bomb maker was said to be the Lebanese ‘terrorist’ named Mughanniyah – claimed as Iran’s expert on bombing aircraft.
He was killed by Mossad – in a car bombing in Damascus in 2008.
But did a CIA agent change the journey of the bomb case – in order to target the ‘right’ plane?

Warnings of a Bomb on Board and Changes of Flight Plans

Throughout November 1988, a number of bomb warnings were given out by such agencies as the US Federal Aviation Agency, the British Department of Transport, and the BKA, that there could be an imminent bomb attack targeting an airliner. Pan Am was specifically advised by the FAA.
All the above three agencies warned of the type of bomb to look out for – a Toshiba radio-cassette that would look like the Khreesat-made bomb that had been seized in October, when Dalkamoni had been arrested in Dusseldorf.
Germany’s Federal Police Office (BKA) received a warning on 18 December, from an undercover Mossad agent, that a bomb was to be substituted in place of a heroin shipment at Frankfurt – on the Pan Am flight and ultimately targeting Pan Am 103 – in the next two or three days…
The BKA alerted the CIA – unwittingly the very same CIA cell that was protecting the Syrian drug route and who had everything to lose if McKee and his team testified.
There was no response from CIA Control as to what to do…
But BKA, on alert, then became suspicious of a suitcase and again the CIA cell was informed. CIA Control then replied to the CIA cell: “DON’T WORRY ABOUT IT. DON’T STOP IT. LET IT GO”…
So again, the Germans were given no orders and so BKA saw no reason to act…
In another very disturbing twist, BKA had a covert videotape of the Turkish baggage handler who placed the bomb case. A copy was given to the CIA cell – and it still exists at its CIA Control in the US – although they would deny this…
Meanwhile, the BKA’s copy of it has been conveniently ‘lost’…
Just days before the bombing, the British government issued two warnings, one with photographs of one of the bombs made by Khreesat, to airline security staff – advising them that if they discovered a similar device they should put it in the hold of the plane!
Flora Swire, a medical student studying in the UK, was engaged to another medical student Hart Lidov, who was studying in the US. She was the daughter of now seasoned Lockerbie campaigner, Dr Jim Swire. Keen to spend Christmas together, the couple tried to book a flight – but was told that there were no seats in either direction.
Mysteriously, Flora was then informed that Pan Am 103 on 21 December – fully booked just 24 hours earlier – now had an inexplicable 165 empty seats… Her fate was sealed.
But the unoccupied seats turned out not to be such a mystery.
The US government warned its own embassy staff in Finland and Russia – as well as a high-level South African delegation containing its Foreign Minister, Pik Botha – that a bomb was going to be on the Pan Am flight going from Frankfurt to America…
A concerned Pan Am security official was told by an FBI agent in Helsinki on 9 December that the Finnish warning was a hoax…
A year after Lockerbie, a British government official said the Moscow warning had been a hoax!
What we know for certain is that almost all of the US embassy staff in Moscow cancelled their bookings on the Pan Am 103 flight – despite it having always been a popular route for them in this run-up to Christmas time…
And that Botha and his whole group cancelled their reservations too – just hours before boarding… Botha’s secretary has stated that he had known nothing of the bomb and would have done anything to stop the flight had he known. This may be true – some politicians are the last to know anything and are moved around like chess pieces by the Dark Forces that secretly control them.
Bomb warnings had been issued after the Lebanon HQ of the PFLP-GC had been raided by commandos from ‘israel’ on 9 December 1988. They had allegedly found documents that disclosed plans to blow up a Pan Am flight out of Frankfurt in late December.
But is this more disinformation from the apartheid ‘state’? They can never be trusted when it comes to what they say about Iran.
As well as the aforementioned change of flight plan for Khalid Jaafar, the McKee CIA cell was also re-booked – to ensure their demise.
Charles McKee was booked to return to the US on 22 December – but it was brought forward by a day. His mother claimed that his superiors did not know about her son’s sudden change of flight plan – but computers in Washington showed exact information about the clothes that he had worn on 21 December… Because he had been under CIA surveillance…
Later an intelligence officer admitted: “Everyone in the intelligence community knew that McKee and (Matthew) Gannon were returning to the US”.
Indeed, the CIA had known of the McKee team’s plans. ‘David Lovejoy’, a US agent, had told the Iranian embassy in Beirut all about it… Lovejoy was allegedly a double agent, his CIA code name being ‘Nutcracker’ – and with CIA connections in
Libya… He was also an associate of the aforementioned Lt. Col. Oliver North…
The US government intercepted Lovejoy’s phone call on 20 December 1988, informing the Iranians – including the aforementioned Ali-Akbar Mohtashemi – that the McKee team would all be on the Pan Am 103 flight on the very next day…
Another of the McKee team, Daniel O’Connor, was due to return to the US on 23 December – but on 19 December he was also moved to 21 December…
Disturbingly, O’Connor had flown from Cyprus to London, to catch Pan Am 103, with a single piece of luggage. After the crash, his case was mysteriously recovered – still in a baggage room at Heathrow…
Later, McKee’s mother tried to find out the truth about whether her son had been the real target of the bomb. Twice she questioned Gannon’s wife, Susan. “The last time, I was accused of opening my mouth too much”, McKee’s mother said despairingly…
Like her husband, Susan Gannon also worked for the CIA – and so did her father…
McKee’s mother admitted: “I have always had a feeling that if Chuck (Charles McKee) had not been on that plane, it would not have been bombed. I know that is not what our President wants me to say”…
There were yet more cancellations off the Pan Am 103 flight.
John McCarthy cancelled his booking on the doomed plane – he was the US ambassador to Lebanon…
Steven Greene did the same – he was assistant administrator in the Office of Intelligence of the US Drug Enforcement Agency…
After the Finnish warning, the son and daughter-in-law of Oliver Revell had their bookings for the bomb flight cancelled. Oliver Revell was the executive assistant director of the FBI and head of FBI Counter-Terrorism…
Incredibly, again, it was Oliver Revell who later dispatched the aforementioned and discredited FBI scientist Thomas Thurman to ‘investigate’ the Lockerbie bombing…
In 1986, Oliver North had previously issued a warning to Oliver Revell that the consequence of an FBI investigation into the Nicaragua-Contra affair “could blow the lid off secret US arms shipments to Iran” – the Iran-Contra affair…
North had been under the guidance of William Casey when Casey had been the Director of the CIA. Casey had also been Ronald Reagan’s election campaign manager in 1980. Casey had been the central architect of the ‘October Surprise’ illegal hostages deal with Iran. It had been Casey who, in return, arranged the arms-to-Iran deal…
Throughout his tenure as the head of the CIA, Casey was utterly obsessed with Libya’s leader, Muammar Gaddafi – and was determined to bring him down at any cost – including framing him in false flag operations…
One of those false flag operations enabled Casey to bomb Libya in 1986 – ironically, the excuse for which Libya was framed for Lockerbie…
Both Casey and Reagan were also close friends of Margaret Thatcher… Thatcher was British Prime Minister at the time of Lockerbie…
In the above seven paragraphs, the reader can now see how the threads of Lockerbie begin to tie up…
Casey – a member of the Knights of Malta – was about to have to testify over Iran-Contra when he suffered a seizure. He was examined by a doctor working for the CIA – who diagnosed that he had a brain tumour. He was told he needed an operation. Casey did not want this and asked for radiotherapy. The CIA doctor refused – and so the CIA removed part of his brain… He was then rendered medically speechless – his brain cells damaged by the operation…
Casey died months later – one year before the Lockerbie bombing.
But his successor, William H. Webster, sent Casey’s lackey Vincent Cannistraro, Director of CIA Operations, to handle the Lockerbie case… Cannistraro had also been Oliver North’s deputy during Iran-Contra…
In 1986, Cannistraro had been told by Ronald Reagan to head a campaign of “disinformation” against Muammar Gaddafi – and to destabilise and then destroy the Libyan Government…
Former CIA agent, Oswald LeWinter, stated that Cannistraro was
the “dirty tricks expert” against Libya – and that his appointment to head the Lockerbie investigation “would be funny, if it were not an obscenity”…
A former CIA official has said that if the original CIA report were ever made public, it would show “damning evidence” that “the Libyans were never directly involved in the Lockerbie bombing”…
US Department of Defence whistleblower, Lester Coleman, says that the cell that did the Lockerbie bombing was trained by CIA operative, Edwin P. Wilson…

Conclusion

One of the main reasons why Lockerbie is so misunderstood is because of the Western media’s continued cover up in its reporting and its refusal to inform the public – preferring instead to follow the usual false narrative as desired by their masters…
Personally, I have never given a damn whether Libya had any involvement in the Lockerbie bombing – America should not have committed the great crime of bombing Libya in 1986. But it is a very serious matter indeed for the CIA to frame an entity for something that entity did not do.
It is also beyond disgusting that the CIA – who I believe acted as the agent provocateur of the attack – committed to the bombing, allowed it to happen and fixed it so that their own people, as well as so many innocents, died just so they could use it as a cover up for their own nefarious activities.
In a statement in 2007, Swiss engineer Ulrich Lumpert, set up as one of the key testifiers against Megrahi, came clean with the truth: “I confirm today, on July 18th 2007, that I stole the third hand-manufactured MST-13 Timer PC-Board consisting of 8 layers of fibre-glass from MeBo Ltd. and gave it without permission on June 22nd 1989 to a person officially investigating in the Lockerbie case. It did not escape me that the MST-13 fragment shown on the police photograph No PT/35(b) came from the non-operational MST-13 prototype PC-board that I had stolen. I am sorry for the consequences of my silence at that time, for the innocent Libyan, Mr. Abdelbaset Al Megrahi, sentenced to life imprisonment, and for the country of Libya.”

Remains of Pan Am 103 flight

A shock report CALLED Operation Bird alleges a CIA cover-up points the finger at Mohammed Abu Talb, who was later convicted of a campaign of bombings

On Libya, Now They Tell Us

The U.S. capture of an alleged al-Qaeda terror leader in Libya underscores the failure of the major news media to give the public the full story during the military intervention that led to Muammar Gaddafi’s ouster and murder. Mainstream journalists behaved more like propagandists, as Robert Parry reported in 2011.

By Robert Parry (Published on Sept. 15, 2011)

During the six-month uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, major U.S. news outlets repeated again and again that the Libyan dictator was behind the 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, and they ignored warnings that militant Islamists were at the core of the anti-Gaddafi rebel army.

Indeed, for Americans to get alternative views on these points, they had to search out Web sites, like Consortiumnews.com, which had the audacity not to march in lockstep with the rest of the Western media. Only outside the mainstream press would you find significant questions asked about the certainty over Libya’s guilt in the Pan Am bombing and about the makeup of the rebels.

Libyan Ali al-Megrahi, whose conviction as the “Lockerbie bomber” remains a point of historical dispute.

Now, after the United States and its NATO allies have engineered the desired “regime change” in Libya – under the pretext of “protecting civilians” – those two points are coming more into focus. The New York Times and the Washington Post finally acknowledged that radical Islamists, including some with links to al-Qaeda, are consolidating their power inside the new regime in Tripoli.

And, the proverbial dog not barking – even as Libya’s secret intelligence files have been exposed to the eyes of Western journalists – is the absence of any incriminating evidence regarding Libya’s role in the Lockerbie case. Earlier interrogations of Libya’s ex-intelligence chief Moussa Koussa by Scottish authorities also apparently came up empty,as he was allowed to leave London for Qatar.

Since Gaddafi’s fall, news outlets also have reported that Libyan intelligence agent, Ali al-Megrahi, who was convicted of the Lockerbie bombing by a Scottish court and was later released on humanitarian grounds because of terminal prostate cancer, is indeed gravely ill, bedridden and seemingly near death. [He died May 20, 2012.]

Megrahi’s trial in 2001 before a panel of Scottish judges was more a kangaroo court than any serious effort to determine guilt – even a Scottish appeals court expressed concern about a grave miscarriage of justice– but the Western press continues to describe Megrahi, without qualification, as the “Lockerbie bomber.”

It also was common in the West’s news media to smirk at the notion that Megrahi was truly suffering from advanced prostate cancer since he hadn’t died as quickly as some doctors thought he might. After Gaddafi’s regime fell, Megrahi’s family invited BBC and other news organizations to see Megrahi struggling to breathe in his sick bed.

His son, Khaled al-Megrahi, also continued to insist on his father’s innocence. “He believes and we know that everybody will see the truth,” the younger Megrahi told the BBC. “I know my father is innocent and one day his innocence will come out.”

Asked about the people who died in the bombing, the son said: “We feel sorry about all the people who died. We want to know who did this bad thing. We want to know the truth as well.”

Convicted or Railroaded?

As more information becomes available inside Libya, the facts may finally be clarified about whether Gaddafi’s government did or did not have a hand in the bombing over Lockerbie. However, so far, the indications are that Megrahi may well have been railroaded by the Scottish judges who found a second Libyan defendant innocent and were under political pressure to convict someone for the crime.

After Megrahi’s curious conviction, the West imposed harsh economic sanctions on Libya, agreeing to lift them only if Libya accepted “responsibility” for the bombing and paid restitution to the families of the 270 victims. To get rid of the punishing sanctions, Libya accepted the deal although its officials continued to insist that Libya had nothing to do with the Lockerbie bombing.

However, amid the 2011 propaganda campaign in support of the Libyan rebels, none of this uncertainty was mentioned in the New York Times, the Washington Post or other leading U.S. news outlets. Gaddafi’s guilt for Lockerbie was simply stated as flat fact, much as the same news organizations endorsed false claims about Iraq’s WMD in the run-up to the 2003 invasion of that Arab country.

Similarly, there was scant U.S. media attention given to evidence that eastern Libya, the heart of the anti-Gaddafi rebellion, was a hotbed for Islamic militancy with that region supplying the most per-capita militants fighting U.S. troops in Iraq, often under the banner of al-Qaeda.

Instead, Gaddafi’s claims that he was battling Islamic terrorists in the Benghazi region were widely mocked or ignored in the West. Even a report by analysts Joseph Felter and Brian Fishman for West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center got short-shrift.

In their report, “Al-Qaeda’s Foreign Fighters in Iraq,” Felter and Fishman analyzed al-Qaeda documents captured in 2007 showing personnel records of militants who flocked to Iraq for the war. The documents showed eastern Libya providing a surprising number of suicide bombers who traveled to Iraq to kill American troops.

Felter and Fishman wrote that these so-called Sinjar Records disclosed that while Saudis comprised the largest number of foreign fighters in Iraq, Libyans represented the largest per-capita contingent by far. Those Libyans came overwhelmingly from towns and cities in the east.

“The vast majority of Libyan fighters that included their hometown in the Sinjar Records resided in the country’s Northeast, particularly the coastal cities of Darnah 60.2% (53) and Benghazi 23.9% (21),” Felter and Fishman wrote.

The authors added that Abu Layth al‐Libi, Emir of Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), “reinforced Benghazi and Darnah’s importance to Libyan jihadis in his announcement that LIFG had joined al‐Qa’ida.”

Top Libyan Terrorists

Some important al-Qaeda leaders operating in Pakistan’s tribal regions also are believed to have come from Libya. For instance, “Atiyah,” who was guiding the anti-U.S. war strategy in Iraq, was identified as a Libyannamed Atiyah Abd al-Rahman.

It was Atiyah who urged a strategy of creating a quagmire for U.S. forces in Iraq, buying time for al-Qaeda headquarters to rebuild its strength in Pakistan. “Prolonging the war [in Iraq] is in our interest,” Atiyah said in a letter that upbraided Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi for his hasty and reckless actions in Iraq.

After U.S. Special Forces killed al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011, in Pakistan, Atiyah became al-Qaeda’s second in command until he himself was reportedly killed in a U.S. drone strike in August. [See Consortiumnews.com “Time Finally Ran Out for Atiyah.”] ***(Unfortunately Bin Laden had died of natural causes in 2002 or 2005 this has been proven, what they killed in May 1st 2011 is an unfortunate person who was not Bin Laden. Do a research and find out what happened to the CREW and SPECIAL FORCES who were involved in this escapade, If I am not mistaken they are all dead)

However, to most Americans relying on the major U.S. news media, little of this was known, as the Washington Post itself acknowledged in an article on Sept. 12, 2011. In an article on the rise of Islamists inside the new power structure in Libya, the Post wrote:

“Although it went largely unnoticed during the uprising that toppled Gaddafi last month, Islamists were at the heart of the fight, many as rebel commanders. Now some are clashing with secularists within the rebels’ Transitional National Council, prompting worries among some liberals that the Islamists — who still command the bulk of fighters and weapons — could use their strength to assert an even more dominant role.”

“In the emerging post-Qaddafi Libya, the most influential politician may well be Ali Sallabi, who has no formal title but commands broad respect as an Islamic scholar and populist orator who was instrumental in leading the mass uprising. The most powerful military leader is nowAbdel Hakim Belhaj, the former leader of a hard-line group once believed to be aligned with Al Qaeda.”

Belhajwas previously the commander of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, which was associated with al-Qaeda in the past, maintained training bases in Afghanistan before the 9/11 attacks, and was listed as a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department.

Though Belhaj and the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group deny current allegiance to al-Qaeda, Belhaj was captured during George W. Bush’s post-9/11 “war on terror” and was harshly interrogated by the CIA at a “black site” prison in Thailand before being handed over to Gaddafi’s government which imprisoned and – Belhaj claims – tortured him. ****(he was not tortured stayed in prison only a year and then was on a house arrest)

The Times reported that “Belhaj has become so much an insider lately that he is seeking to unseatMahmoud Jibril, the American-trained economist who is the nominal prime minister of the interim government, after Mr. Jibril obliquely criticized the Islamists.”

The Times article by correspondents Rod Nordland and David D. Kirkpatrick also cited other recent developments of growing Islamist influence inside the Libyan rebel movement:

“Islamist militias in Libya receive weapons and financing directly from foreign benefactors like Qatar; a Muslim Brotherhood figure, Abel al-Rajazk Abu Hajar, leads the Tripoli Municipal Governing Council, where Islamists are reportedly in the majority; in eastern Libya, there has been no resolution of the assassination in July of the leader of the rebel military, Gen. Abdul Fattah Younes, suspected by some to be the work of Islamists.”

It may be commendable that the Post and Times finally gave serious attention to this unintended consequence of the NATO-backed “regime change” in Libya, but the fact that these premier American newspapers ignored the Islamist issue as well as doubts about Libya’s Lockerbie guilt – while the U.S. government was whipping up public support for another war in the Muslim world– raises questions about whether any lessons were learned from Iraq.

Do these prestige news outlets continue to see their role in such cases as simply getting the American people to line up behind the latest war against a Mideast “bad guy” – or will they ever take seriously their journalistic duty to arm the public with as much information as possible?